April Architectural Student Design Competitions

Here are upcoming architecture student and green design competitions for April, 2011:

April 1st, 2011

Modern House Ideas Competition

Deadline: 04.01.2011

Modern in Denver Magazine and the founding members of The Denver Architectural League invite you to share your ideas on how we should house ourselves in the new century. This is an ideas competition seeking new definitions for modern language, modern living and modern lifestyle.

The competition is open to all designers and architects who are presently in school or who have been out of school for less than 10 years. There will be approximately $1000 - $1500 in cash awards and the winner will be published in Modern in Denver Magazine. The sites are 44' W x 68' L.
 
More information? Competition website is: https://sites.google.com/site/modernhousecompetition



April 9th, 2011

Not Just a Container design competition

Set to open on Fulton Mall in downtown Brooklyn this summer, the Dekalb Market will bring together creative entrepreneurs in a community setting. The new market will be housed in a collection of salvaged shipping containers and will include an incubator farm, a food market, an events and performance venue, and a collection of eateries and work-sell spaces. The Not Just a Container contest challenges entrepreneurs to design the most creative and innovative uses for a shipping container in a downtown Brooklyn retail location. Uses for the space include, but are not limited to: a farm structure, a store, an art installation, work-sell space, a restaurant, and sports and music venues. Entries will be judged on the following criteria: design quality, sustainability, community impact, and entrepreneurship. The winner will receive six months free rent at Dekalb Market, and $3,000 for the design and construction.

Submissions will be accepted until April 9th – enter yours today!

REGISTRATION DEADLINE:
April 9th, 2011

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
April 9th, 2011

LINK:
http://www.dekalbmarket.com

AWARD/PRIZE

Six months free rent at Dekalb Market, $3,000 for design and construction, one year memberships to 3rd Ward and the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Designs must conform to an 8’ wide by 20’ long by 9.5’ high ISO steel shipping container. Second and third prizes may be awarded to conceptual entries but 1st prize will be awarded to a buildable entry. External interventions, depending upon specifics, may or may not be possible to implement on site.

JURY

Alex Goldmark, Good.is; Carl Hum, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce; Derek Denckla, Added Value; Jason goodman, 3rd Ward; Josh Rubin, Cool Hunting; Kelvin Collins, NYC Business Solutions; Morgan Evans, Etsy; Piers Fawkes, PSFK; Rachel Wharton, Edible; Sarah Beatty, Green Depot; Tamara McCaw, BAM; Thomas Kosbau, ORE DESIGN

Enter the Not Just a Container Shipping Container Design Competition!






April 15, 2011

Eisenhower Memorial Competition 2011

Deadline: 04.15.2011
 
This spring, the National Civic Art Society (NCAS) and the Institute for Classical Architecture & Classical America (ICACA) Mid-Atlantic Chapter invites classical architects and artists to engage in a competition to design a counterproposal to Frank Gehry's design of a national monument to President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
 
The competition, which is open to any designer or team of designers who are citizens of the United States, will seek to encourage the design of appropriate, meaningful, and timeless memorials to Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, five-star general of the United States Army, Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe and Supreme Commander of NATO. It is the hope of the NCAS and ICACA that this competition will encourage dialogue among designers and the general public about the meaning, inspiration and dignity of designs that are suitable to commemorate a distinguished president and general.
 
Submissions should be designs that embody the traditions of civic art in Washington, DC and should stand in harmony with the vision of the L'Enfant Plan as well as the McMillan Commission. All submissions are due by April 15, 2011. For more information about the specifications as well the monetary awards to be bestowed upon the winners of the competition, please visit:

2011 Eisenhower Memorial Design Competition entry form






April 17, 2011

Gowanus Lowline

Deadline: 4/17/2011

Submission:

This competition is a digital submission. Submissions must be uploaded to the competition website by 11:59 EST : Sunday, April 17, 2011. Submission Requirements: one 24" x 36" layout, landscape format at 72 dpi, PDF. Name your file as your ID number ie: 1234_BOARD.pdf There are no specific representational requirements, only that the graphics support your proposal. A Site/Location plan is strongly encouraged.
 
To Submit

Upload your board AND entry form on the home page. BOTH BOARD AND ENTRY FORM SHOULD BE RENAMED AS YOUR ID NUMBER. Once the submission period has closed, all entries will be available for viewing on the completion website.
 
Eligibility:

All individuals and team members must be ages 18 and over. Teams are encouraged and the committee also encourages the participation of at least one design professional on each team. GbD retains the right to automatically disqualify any submissions received after April 17, 2011. Registrants must conform to the above submission requirements; any discrepancies to said requirements are subject to automatic disqualification. All submitted materials become the property of Gowanus by Design; however, the design copyrights remain with the submitting individuals/team members. GbD, its members, and all other parties related to this competition are not responsible for lost submissions or digital delays. Winners and those chosen for exhibition may be asked to submit a brief written description of their entries. This will be required prior to the exhibition in May 2011.
 

Enter 2011 Gowanus Online design competition
 




April 22, 2011

20+10+X Architecture Awards 10th Cycle

Participate for FREE! The aim of the WA Community Awards is to highlight and publish remarkable projects that might otherwise remain unnoticed by the international public yet have the potential to inspire exciting questions about contemporary architectural discourse. ALL PROJECTS uploaded to the portal are considered as candidates for WA Awards, so we invite architects, architecture students from ALL COUNTRIES to submit their buildings (realized or not) of ANY TYPE for the appreciation of the WA Community.

All projects submitted or updated by their architects after 21 January 2011 will be evaluated for the WA Awards 10th Cycle.

What is distinctive about WA Awards
WA is an “online community” initiated by Suha Özkan and 200+ invited Honorary Members, and a growing number of registered members (13000+ by Sept 2010).
Awarding follows a most democratic procedure where all member’s ratings and the votes of all Honorary Members are effective in the final decisions.

Registrations are completely FREE so that all architects can participate both as candidates and judges.

Eligibility:
Architects from ALL countries can submit ALL of their buildings (realized or not) for the appreciation of the WA Community. Recent projects (not older than 10 years) will have more chances to be shortlisted for the Awards. Students, landscape architects, engineers may also submit for the awards projects they are the author of: we do not check or accredit diplomas.

Projects submitted to the WA Portal between 21 January 2011 - 22 April 2011 will be considered for the 10th Cycle. All projects submitted earlier can be reconsidered if their pages are updated with significant new material by their architects.

Criteria for Recognition:
NOVELTY; ORIGINALITY, and CREATIVITY in design that reflect and inspire a commitment to the art of architecture are the major criteria. The WA Portal tries to bridge the gap between theory and practice: thus the architect’s explanations and member’s discussions on submissions will be critical for recognition as much as the design itself.

Timetable:
Deadline for submissions to be evaluated for the 10th Cycle is April 22, 2011. Please note that early submissions will have more chances to be recognized and move higher in the ranks before the Final Assessment Panel.

In May 2011, the shortlisted projects will be online for all members to examine and discuss.

The Panel will complete the voting process, and announce the selected projects during June 2011.

At this last stage, the “Most Thought-provoking +X” projects also will be determined by examining the discussions posted to the pages of the projects.

Submission procedure:
Registration to the WA Portal www.worldarchitecture.org is totally free. Registrants are expected to create their ARCHITECT / OFFICE PAGES (from MY PAGE section) and subsequently many BUILDING PAGES representing their work. For each building 9 images can be uploaded, at least one of them should be an architectural drawing.

Please note that good photographs, a detailed explanatory text and also related links will provide a good presentation for each of your buildings to be considered more seriously. If you also relate your building to the relevant ISSUE PAGES, this will make the intentions that guided the design more explicit. For guidance during submissions, FAQ on the main menu can be consulted

Categories:

Choosing the “Building Type” is a standard procedure during submissions to the WA Community Portal. The Final Panel (and members) may choose to award projects of any category without any limitation. Forcing them to choose a certain number for each category appears not to be relevant for our aims.

Online entry form for 20+10+X Architecture Awards 10th Cycle April 2011